School: Srónaill (Shronell) (roll number 15008)

Location:: Srónaill, Co. Thiobraid Árann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0580, Page 268

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Ellen from Shronell used to come to the dance and she was the most beautiful girl at the dance and Liam Dall wanted to be married to her and when the boys would go to the Sheebeen and get drunk they would have a row over Ellen from Shronell and while Ellen would be dancing Liam Dall would play the loveliest music that he ever played.
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Liam Dall and John Damer

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When John Damer lived at Damer Court he wanted a school so he got one built just a little bit above the cross of Shronell where Deeres live now all his workmen could send their children to it and the Presbiterians and Catholics could go to that school he gave the master a small plot of land to live on.
One day Liam Dall went to Lattin and the Lattin boys said that they would have a bit of sport and they started to scradding him so one boy by the name of Quinlan said that it was not right to scrad a blind man so Liam Dall cursed them and the curse fell on them and the boy who spoke for him he blessed him and the blessing went with him.
When the Fair of Knockarding would once a year Lia Dall used to be delighted because his friend Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill would come with he tent and the fair would last for nearly a week and Liam would sit in the tent and play the fiddle and that night they

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